Continuing Education - Professional Courses

Xavier Freixas (UPF and Barcelona GSE), course director

Xavier Freixas is Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE Research Professor. He is former president of the European Finance Association and chairman of Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) Risk Based Regulation Program. He has previously been Deutsche Bank Professor of European Financial Integration at Oxford University, Houblon Norman Senior Fellow of the Bank of England and joint executive director of FEDEA, and a professor at Toulouse University. 
He has been a consultant for the European Investment Bank, the New York Fed, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and MEDD.
 He is currently consultant for the European Central Bank on macro-prudential policy. Prof. Freixas’ Microeconomics of Banking (joint with Jean-Charles Rochet and edited by MIT Press) is the standard reference textbook for Banking research worldwide. He is a leading expert on systemic risk.

José-Luis Peydró (UPF and Barcelona GSE), course director

José-Luis Peydró is Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Research Fellow at IESE business school, and Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professor. In 2012-13 he has been consultant for the Federal Reserve Board and the IMF. His research on Banking and Systemic Risk has been published in the top journals in Economics and in Finance, featured in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times blogs, and cited by Board Members of the Federal Reserve, ECB and IMF. Prof. Peydró has presented his research on Systemic Risk in universities as Harvard and MIT and in the major central banks, and has written a survey chapter on Systemic Risk in Banking edited by Oxford University Press. José-Luis is currently an Advisor in the Financial Stability Department of Bank of Spain and has a leave of absence from the ECB. José-Luis has a PhD in Finance from INSEAD.

 Jordi Galí (UPF and Barcelona GSE)

Jordi Galí is the Director of the Centre for Research in International Economics (CREI), Professor at the UPF and Researcher Professor at the Barcelona GSE. He held academic positions at New York University and Columbia University, and was Visiting Professor at MIT. In 2005 Prof. Galí received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics. He also won the Rei Jaume I Prize for Economics (2004), the VII Prize of the Catalan Society of Economics (2008) and the Catalan National Research Prize (2011). Prof. Galí has been cited as the most productive Spanish researcher from 1990-2004 (“Publishing Performance of Spanish Academics: 1970-2004” by D. Rodriguez, Spanish Economic Review, 2006). He has also been ranked as the 8th most cited researcher worldwide in Economics and Business (Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators SM, data from January 1997-October 2007). Prof. Galí holds Research positions at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, and at the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Christian Brownlees (UPF and Barcelona GSE)

Christian Brownlees is Assistant Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professor. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics and Quantitative Methods and PhD in Statistics from Università di Firenze. He was a Post-Doc Research Fellow at NYU Stern until 2011. Prof. Brownlees has been working extensively in the field of Systemic Risk. He has published a book chapter in Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance (edited by Acharya, Cooley, Richardson and Walter).

José García-Montalvo (UPF)

José García-Montalvo is Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and guest professor at Barcelona GSE. He has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. He has been the Director of the Department of Economics and Business at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, consultant for the OECD, the Interamerican Development Bank and the World Bank. He has written eleven books and more than 90 publications including American Economic Review and Review of Economics and Statistics. Prof. Montalvo is
 also the director of the Center 
for Research on the Economies of the Mediterranean (CREMed) and has been a visiting Professor at Harvard University. He is currently a Board Member at CatalunyaBank and the leading specialist on real estate in Spain.

Jaume Ventura (CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE)

Jaume Ventura is a Senior Researcher at CREI, Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professor. He is a former director of the International Macroeconomics Program of the CEPR. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1995. Prior to joining CREI and UPF, he was a tenured associate professor at MIT, where he won both the Undergraduate and the Graduate Economics Association ‘Best Teacher’ Award. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and INSEAD. Ventura has worked full-time for the World Bank, and acted as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank. Prof. Ventura is one of the world leading economists on the interaction between asset bubbles and macroeconomics.

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(until 15 May 2013)

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(until 22 Apr 2013)